Guild Wars 2

Here’s a radical suggestion to completely shake up WvW but also hopefully make a lot of different people happy.

2-Phase Match Structure
Phase 1 – Reset Weekend (Lasts from Reset till Sunday)
The match is played as normal with all sides participating as they do now

Phase 2 – Weekday
Here’s where things get interesting.

At “Reset Time” Sunday (currently 6pm Server) WvW is brought down for a “phase change” but when it comes back up new “Rules” for BLs are in effect:

• EBG – Server vs Server (continues to function as it does now with Scores carrying over from the weekend)
• “Roamer’s Paradise” – One BL is converted into a “Free for all” map where only Party Members are Friendly and everyone else regardless of Server is now Red/an Enemy
• “Guild vs Guild” – One BL is converted into a map where only people from the same Guild (and Server) are Friendly. Anyone not a member of your Guild (including those not currently “Repping”) are Enemies
• “PvE/Map Completion” – One BL is converted to a PvE Map where everyone (regardless of Server) is Friendly and Map Completionists can run wild and free

Which BL is which can be rotated each week so Map Completionists can be happy.

This allows matches to be more competitive throughout the week (a Server only needs to be able to “cover” EBG during the week rather than 4 maps) while also allowing 2 new types of often-requested gameplay as well as making Map Completionists happy.

That’s interesting, but I think the easiest fix would be Wv4. JQ,SoR,BG,TC going at it for example.

IronDuke.6380:

That’s interesting, but I think the easiest fix would be Wv4. JQ,SoR,BG,TC going at it for example.

lag would be even worse….

This is actually a great idea, I really like it. Its three different game types (all crucial to WvW) working separately towards the total score. I am not sold on the PVE/Map complitionist idea though.

The key is going to be how is this system going to be scored. How are points awareded for the GvG map where numbers will vary. Would there be different leaderboards inside WvWvW for guilds and individual roaming parties? A TC party fighting another TC party and winning would lead to X?

I still think this is an idea worth investigating though or something along this path. For a long time I have thought that Arenanet should have an extra map whose focus is less on objectives and more on open-field to keep the GvG-ers happy.

Lanimal.6541:

The key is going to be how is this system going to be scored.

My thought was that in Phase 2 EBG and only EBG contributes to the WvW score.

The other 3 Maps become more “sandboxes” or “playgrounds” for people to have fun in. I do think it would be interesting if ANet could add statistics for Guild Captures (or Defends) during GvG map play but part of the idea here is those three maps can operate under different rules and even different events then during Phase 1.

The “World Completion” map might look just like a Borderland but it can have completely different Dynamic Events, maybe even a major Boss Fight and Towers, Keeps, and Camps could function completely differently as it is expanded over time.

ANet can even alternate between EBG and a BL Map for the “WvW Map” so for some matches people could play on a BL during the week using the current rule set.

Part of the idea here is many more Servers can compete during the week if the scoring is only taking place on one map while still offering players things to do outside of PvE or sPvP during the week if they can’t get in to the WvW Map (and at the same time offering new play styles that people have been requesting).